awesome yea i might go that route.. I'm nostalgic for DP3 because I had this setup around 2001.. only back then I didn't have a MOTU 828 like i do now!

my question about Cubase is will it work with MOTU Midi devices. With DP3 + FreeMIDI I have this setup all hooked up at once:
x1 MOTU MidiExpress XT (USB) 8 in / 8 out
x2 MOTU MTP AV (USB / Serial networked) 16 in / 16 out
My worry about other DAW is that they won't be able to talk to all my devices like I can do it in DP3..
but right now I just have to figure out how to reinstall OS 9.2.2 and it seems reasonable that I did it once before with this disk so I should be able to reinstall it. I can't remember what I did last time.
Because I have a working OSX partition, is there a way to install OS9 from OSX but to be clear I will never intentionally boot up to OSX so it's not like I'm looking for a "classic" solution. I want a native pure OS9 (OS9 lives counts in my book).
Thanks,
Caleb